Tag: sequester

The Tea Party handed power to Mitch McConnell so he can now publicly spit on them. After learning about how the budget process was completely and inexplicably derailed, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Mitch McConnell is now calling for spending increases. According to the Hill: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Wednesday that he and the House Speaker are discussing a short-term government funding bill to avoid a shutdown on Oct. 1. McConnell (R-Ky.) also warned his Read more […]

We need to brace ourselves for more government spending by Republicans cooperating with Barack Obama. It isn’t hard to see the agenda in this Associated Press story: “Congress Returns to Weighty List of Unfinished Business.” Nowhere does this weighty list include reducing spending. The coming financial black hole is simply going to be ignored. We are supposed to forget about all that and accept that the country will fall apart if Congress doesn’t cooperate with the President and spend Read more […]

Forget about tax and spend Liberals; tax and spend Republicans are the people we need to worry about now. I’ve written about how the new Republicans that conservatives put in Congress are going to raise taxes. Even back before the November election, Politico.com claimed that Republicans were ditching “tax cutting mania.” Sure enough, in early January Republicans were openly talking about raising the Federal gas tax—something that I can safely say no one voted them into office to do. But Read more […]

On Friday, I reported that the Senate needed five Republicans to vote in favor of the Ryan budget compromise in order for it to pass. Now, I read that they need eight Republicans to vote for it. Senate Democrats are still short of the votes needed to pass a budget deal that would avoid a government shutdown in January and blunt automatic spending cuts, Senator Dick Durbin, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, said on Sunday. “The struggle is still on in the United States Senate. We will need about eight Read more […]

I thought we had the power to shut down the government. What happened? I heard Paul Ryan interviewed today on NPR and I thought his reasoning was awful. He took it for granted that we needed to get away from the Sequester. No. We didn’t. From the Washington Post: Ryan, the Republican Party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, still engenders much respect in all ideological corners of the GOP caucus, and his plan won plaudits from senior Republicans for establishing a two-year framework Read more […]

Like Marcus Rubio, Rand Paul is opposing the new increased-spending budget deal that is being promoted in Congress by Paul Ryan and John Boehner. He released this statement: “There is a recurring theme in Washington budget negotiations. It’s I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today [E.C. Segar. Popeye, J. Wellington Wimpy: The Yale book of quotations]. I think it’s a huge mistake to trade sequester cuts now, for the promise of cuts later,” Sen. Paul said. “The small sequester spending Read more […]

It is almost as if Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan have switched places. The threatened budget deal is here and Marco Rubio is setting his face against it. We need a government with less debt and an economy with more good paying jobs, and this budget fails to accomplish both goals, making it harder for more Americans to achieve the American Dream. Instead, this budget continues Washington’s irresponsible budgeting decisions by spending more money than the government takes in and placing additional Read more […]

Can someone explain to me why he ever got a reputation as a fiscal conservative? The Hill reports, The key conservative group Heritage Action on Monday warned that it will oppose any budget deal that reverses sequestration cuts in exchange for “inadequate” spending cuts later. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) are trying to complete a small budget deal this week and have discussed using cuts scored over 10 years to pay for increased spending in 2014 and 2015. “Heritage Action Read more […]

The propaganda mill for infinite government spending is revving up. How do you scare people this year when your scare tactics from last year are now revealed as gross exaggerations and distortions of the facts? Answer, you put the falsity of your previous claims “up front” in your news and pretend it only adds to your credibility this time. Thus, the AP teaser line of this story: “Automatic spending cuts largely barked about this year might bite in 2014.” The first year of automatic, across-the-board Read more […]

The fact that this is considered positive news about the deficit demonstrates how doomed we really are: The budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2013 dropped to $680.3 billion, the government reported Wednesday — the first time in five years the shortfall has been below $1 trillion. Both the Obama administrations and congressional Republicans cited their own cost-cutting efforts. The deficit “is now less than half of what it was when the president took office,” said Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Read more […]

It seems that recruiting weirdoes to be terrorists and offering them training and financing to do crimes they would never have tried on their own, and then busting them and claiming that you “foiled” a terrorist plot is hard and expensive work. Never fear, Obama promises he will always have the FBI’s back no matter what those evil Tea Party Republicans do. President Obama on Monday assured employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he would fight to keep politics from interfering Read more […]

The former Executive Editor of Bloomberg claims that the statement, “The U.S. budget deficit is worse than ever,” is a false statement. Technically true but trivial. His elaboration is false: A starting – and false – premise of the public, and some politicians, is that the deficit is spiraling out of control. In a national survey by Bloomberg News last month, Americans said, by a margin of 59 percent to 10 percent, the deficit was getting worse; this belief was held by 93 percent of Tea Read more […]